Lelouch is now 71 years old, and I bet he's never had as much fun with a film. Roman de Gare threads plots and characters and twists together like a demented weaver.
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08/22/08
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Roman de Gare (2008)
88 %
Reviews Counted: 60 Fresh: 53 Rotten:7 Average Rating: 7.1/10
Consensus:
Claude Lelouch has crafted an engaging thriller about murder and romance with plenty of stylistic panache.
Rated: R [See Full Rating]
Runtime: 1 hr 43 mins
Theatrical Release: Apr 25, 2008 Limited
Box Office: $1,735,301
Synopsis: True to its title, ROMAN DE GARE (CROSSED TRACKS) finds famed French director Claude Lelouch (UN HOMME ET UNE FEMME) jumping between time and loyalties in this suspenseful mystery about fate and fatal secrets. As the film opens, popular crime novelist Judith Ralitzer (Fanny Ardant) finds... [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Dominique Pinon, Fanny Ardant, Audrey Dana, Zinedine Soualem, Michèle Bernier
Director: Claude Lelouch
Screenwriter: Claude Lelouch, Pierre Uytterhoeven
Producer: Claude Lelouch
Composer: Gilbert Becaud, Alex Jaffray
Screenwriter: Claude Lelouch, Pierre Uytterhoeven
Producer: Claude Lelouch
Composer: Gilbert Becaud, Alex Jaffray
Reviews
Top Critic
... about the creation of fiction, the way we spin lies together into a simulacrum of life - if there's any philosophical point of view beyond that it's that every narrative is necessarily an abridgment of truth.
08/01/08
What's especially clever about the plotting is that anything that proves to be merely a red herring is then incorporated into another storyline.
07/24/08
If this kind of storytelling is your cup of absinthe, Claude Lelouch makes it easy to sip appreciatively.
07/18/08
In many ways, Lelouch's film is -- in its somewhat old-fashioned way (which isn't a pejorative) -- the most bracing dose of cinema I've seen all year.
07/16/08
Provides one of the year's more memorable movie moments: a simple shot of a barn, overlaid with both the soothing crooning of a Gilbert Becaud pop song and the terrified squeals of a hog being slaughtered.
07/11/08
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07/10/08
It's intellectually cagey, potentially romantic, and, above all, an entertaining puzzle box of duplicitous people doing mysterious things, men and women.
06/20/08
Roman de Gare is a sleek, attractive package made even more appealing by a trio of exquisite performers.
06/08/08
As fizzy and non-nutritive as a glass of sparkling wine, Roman de Gare is a crowd-pleasing blend of romance, farce and mystery that plays out a little like a Ruth Rendell mystery novel with Rendell herself as the chief suspect.
06/06/08
Forty years after his breakout success as a filmmaker, Claude Lelouch makes something of a comeback with his playful and sexy whodunit, Roman de Gare.
06/06/08
Roman de Gare is the rare trick film in which all the tricks reveal something amusing, involving or poignant about its characters.
06/06/08
Claude Lelouch's 'Roman de gare'('Crossed Tracks'): A seductive, compulsively watchable little cat-and-mouse game
06/04/08
With elements of road movie, thriller and comedy as well as other genres, Tracks possesses a freewheeling appeal.
05/30/08
Lelouch and his longtime writing partner, Pierre Uytterhoeven, slyly exploit and subvert audience expectations.
05/30/08
Top Critic
You'll be wondering if you've inadvertently stumbled into a David Mamet movie, it's that well done.
05/27/08
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